Word: beltways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major plans that have been in the news were put forth by President Clinton and Rep. Jim Cooper (D-Tennessee), another Rhodes Scholar but Harvard Law graduate. Other plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans have made the rounds of the beltway, and aspects of plans from Hawaii, other states and Canada have been considered. The Clinton and Cooper plans, however, have received the most broad-based support and appear to have the greatest chances of being enacted. But these plans have serious financial side effects that must be considered...
...second secret trait of the Clintonites, arrogance, might be more precisely defined as the arrogance of lawyers, especially those trained in the Ivy League and working inside the Beltway. Lawyers are paid to put deals together. Restructuring the American health industry may be bigger than ingesting Paramount, but once you give a lawyer the assignment, all the rest is commentary. If a couple dozen lawyers can't handle this, then what good are their fancy educations, and what good have they done by forsaking the even fancier jobs they might have held in the private sector? If the gargantuan project...
Twelve months later it is apparent that the "revolution" is over, if it even even began. The rhetoric of the campaigns has given way to the reality of the aftermath. The newcomers quickly joined the rank-and-file members of the Hill and soon learned the ways of "the Beltway." In their first six months in office, these "babes-in-the-woods" pulled in a record $8 million in campaign contributions. Perhaps they could teach lessons to the incumbents defeated...
...than with Middle America. "The President should remind himself," says presidential scholar Stephen Hess, "that the people who elected him get their hair cut, not styled, by barbers named Ed, not Cristophe, and they pay in cash, not personal-services contracts." The speed of passage of the haircut from Beltway to Burbank monologue set a new indoor record...
...shape. Instead, the White House turned the job over to a 511-member task force whose very names were kept secret. When the Administration grudgingly issued a list, the task-force members turned out to be mostly congressional assistants, academics and think-tankers little known even inside the Washington Beltway. Typically, Daniel Callahan, the nation's best-known expert on medical ethics, said, "I know the top 10 minds in the country on this issue. I've talked to them." Not only were none of them on the task force; they knew none of the people who were...